[Coco] Another drive question

[David]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:48:37PM -0600, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 12:37 AM 12/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
 
> What has me totally shocked is that nobody (apparently) has come up with a 
> solution for Windows 2000 and XP to r/w non-PC 256-byte sector floppies 
> since 2000 or so, besides these OS9Max foreigners.  Yea, there's probably 
> something out there, but searching the net heavily for every keyword that 
> could possibly be related to such a project has turned up zilch.
> 
> Usually when Windows takes something away or in many cases when they 
> haven't yet, somebody gets their revenge by offering a free version of it 
> somewhere on the web, and it's usually wide-spread.  Still, no voiced 
> solution to the 2000/XP issue with 256-byte sector floppies.
> 
> I guess one solution would be to switch over to Linux (in a dual-boot 
> system) <-- tee hee, I almost had some of you Linux guys on that one, and 
> move CoCo floppies back and forth that way, but you still need to move them 
> into the Windows system for M.E.S.S. to use.

If you can get that far, you should have the problem licked.  If you are
running a dual boot system, if you have a Windows partition that it not
NTFS, just mount that partition under Linux and copy the file to that.
Or, simply copy the file onto a FAT-formatted floppy.